Picturavis,

Stacked Moon

First, I wish you all a happy new year! The Fediverse is awesome and you are all awesome!

This is my first attempt at creating a stacked moon image. The moon was a bit low, so there is a lot of "wobbling" in the images, making perfect registration of craters difficult. After some quick research and trial and error, I settled for the following workflow:

  • Batch processing of 14 individual RAW files with RawTherapee to JPEG
  • Manual cropping around moon for each image in GIMP
  • Nonrigid registration of all photos onto first image in Fiji via bUnwrapJ
  • Second nonrigid registration via Align Layers from G'MIC in GIMP
  • Stacking of all 14 images into one image via Blend [Average All] from G'MIC in GIMP
  • Sharpen via Sharpen [Gold-Meinel] from G'MIC in GIMP
  • Contrast and saturation processing in GIMP

Any feedback and suggestions are very welcome!

Nikon D500, Sigma 150-600mm C, 600 mm, f8, 1/500, ISO 100, handheld
#astrophotography #moon #photography #germany #digikam #RawTherapee #ImageJFiji #GIMP #GMIC #SilentSunday #HappyNewYear

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